CIRCA 1738-40

細節

A Meissen group of the Harlequin family
Circa 1738-40
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, with Harlequin in a gilt-edged grey hat, white ruff and gilt-buttoned chequered suit, a slapstick tucked under his red belt, dancing with Columbine and a child, Columbine wearing a small blue tricorn hat, a red and black bodice, a red-spotted white apron and a white skirt with indianische Blumen, holding a child in a black hat and chequered jacket with her right arm and playing the castanettes with her left hand, on a shaped mound base applied with flowers and foliage (Harlequin's and Columbine's heads restuck, Columbine's left forearm, Harlequin's left arm and left leg probably porcelain replacements, his right arm restuck, restoration to slapstick and flower, chipping to hats, her right sleeve, flowers and foliage, slight wear to gilding and enamels)
7 in. (18 cm.) high

來源

Dr. Aurel von Dobay Collection, Budapest, sale Lepke, Berlin, 9th 10th December 1926, lot 271, fig. 9
Kaumheimer Collection
Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, inv. M.N. n. 548.

出版

Alfred Ziffer, 1991, p. 16, no. 1.

注意事項

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拍品專文

A similar group was sold in these Rooms on 2nd May 1960, lot 102 and another from the Stewart Granger Collection was sold in these Rooms on the 20th May 1963, lot 155. The example in the Irwin Untermyer Collection is illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain (Nottingham, 1956), pl. 55, fig. 75, and the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel, is illustrated by Ingelore Menzhausen and Jürgen Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert (Basel, 1993), p. 132.